Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary By Jeri Ferris

Fourth Grade Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary Here are the elements of a biography: written about a real person contain important information about the person’s life (details how the person talks, feels, and thinks about things) may span the person’s whole life, or it may tell about only an important part of the person’s life (told in chronological order—in the order events occurred in time) focuses on the most important events in the person’s life, describing achievements or talents

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary What do you already know about the arctic climate and the dangers a first-time explorer might face? born in 1866 in Washington, DC began working on a sailing ship at age 14 --learned navigation skills, carpentry, & mechanics --studied books in the captain’s library worked for Lieutenant Robert E. Peary after the captain died --went on an expedition to cross Greenland’s ice cap (this selection) --goal achieved on April 6, 1909 Henson, Peary, & 4 Inuits Inuit Facts ate raw meat (warm or frozen), explaining why they smell like walruses, seals, and blubber. did not take daily baths (mothers washed babies the way a cat would wash her kittens)

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary The following words are plural forms of words that end with –s, - x, -ch, or –ss. bosse s foxesstitcheswalruses walrus What are the singular forms of each word? foxstitchbos s What has been added to make each word plural?

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary What do the following words have in common? Greenlan d EskimosAugustHenson They each begin with a _______________________ letter. They are called ___________________ nouns.

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary Each word contains the prefix in-, im-, or un-, which means not. inexperiencedimpossibleindependentunfriendl y Determine the base word for each word. not experienced not possible not dependent not friendly What do the following words mean? incomplete imperfect unhappy not happy not perfect not complete

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary These words from “Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson” are compound words. handshak e moonligh t lifetimeunderstand hand + shake moon + lightlife + timeunder + stand What words can be used to complete these compound words? brain_________ head_________ news_________

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary The startled walruses poked their heads out of the water. What are the two plural nouns in this sentence?

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary On June 21 Matt saw Greenland for the first time. Robert Peary, 1891 Identify the proper nouns in this sentence.

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary They did find some unfriendly walruses. What part of speech is “unfriendly” ? adjective describes What are you looking at? What are you?

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary My grandfather has seen many changes in his lifetimes. What are the two compound words in this sentence?

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary expedition arctic glaciers constellation insulation

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary Before he made the famous expedition, he went on several trips to the arctic region with Robert Peary. Astronauts go on an expedition to find out more about space. expedition (noun)—a journey made to accomplish something

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary “It was in June 1891,” Matt Henson wrote, “that I started on my first trip to the Arctic regions.” The trip to Greenland was Matthew Henson’s first arctic journey. arctic (adjective)—having to do with the north pole

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary Matt saw glaciers that looked like thick flowing cream, frozen into white walls. Glaciers, huge, slow-moving masses of ice, can cause damage to large ships. glaciers (noun)—large, slow-moving masses of ice

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary While he watched the stars, the Eskimos explained that the constellation he called the Pleiades was really a team of dogs chasing a polar bear. The Little Dipper is a constellation, a group of fixed stars that has a name. constellation (noun)—a group of fixed stars having a name

Fourth Grade, Open Court Unit 4: Survival Vuthny Prak, Palmetto Elementary Even though, Matt always covered the inside of his boots with soft dried moss for insulation, his heel froze. Insulation is used in houses to make sure they don’t lose heat. insulation (noun)—a material that keeps heat from being lost